DRJ#4

DRJ# 4 Ac4 4 is when things start to get good the lies and trickery catch up to Polonius and he gets killed. I can’t think of anyone this reminds me of except human nature itself. The nature of people deceiving others for their own gain is just a part of being human. Ophelia in act 4 is a very sad and depressed girl which seems to gone mad or maybe just a little crazier than everybody else. Unlike her brother see does not seek revenge on hamlet possibly because she is likely pregnant with Hamlets child. Ironically is she is pregnant that she must of not committed suicide like it appears. Act 5 has a strong setting of death from the use of Shakespeare’s gravedigger and skull of the “kings jester”(160). The talk of death and the rotting and decaying of body parts is preparing the audience for the final showdown. In the last pages of act 5 there isn’t much talk about rotting corpses but I think the dialog with the gravedigger makes the audience think not to many people are going to be alive when all this drama is over.

DRJ#3

DRJ# 3 The first thing that came to mind in act 3 is the continual planning of deception by most of the characters. Polonius is one of those type of people who love drama and really want to be in the middle of it. I work with a guy like that who drives a forklift around and parks it in certain places to see what people are doing. He will park it in places like the parking lot and watch for people to leave for lunch, which we are not supposed to do, yeah right! Similar to Polonius he will report to the king what he sees, even though he really gains no higher position for doing so. The guy I work with has been a forklift driver for a long time and is due to retire soon and has nothing to gain by snitching on people to management. He just loves to be a rat spy like Polonius. In act 3 Hamlet is continually messing with people or prodding at the characters such as the king, Queen and Ophelia. He says things like how could they kill such a noble guy to Polonius, when referring to his Julius Cesar role in a play he was in. Hamlet also talks about how his mother is seemed happy after the death of his father and refuses to sit next to his mother during the play. Hamlet sarcasm and messing with these people is used to create tension between the characters and sets up the audience for the Kings reaction to the play being performed. In act 3 scene 3 the theme of guilt/sin is very present and obvious during the performance of the play. Shakespeare gives the audience the reaction from the king we are expecting of course. At the beginning of act4 the king decides once and for all he needs to get rid of hamlet. After Claudius speaks to himself about feels guilty he decides “all may be well” in line 70. This short statement is shake spheres way of foreshadowing the need for Claudius to kill hamlet.